[NFBWATlk] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] URGENT Legislative Alert - Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act Update

[Susan Prows]

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From: "Young, Justin via NFBNet-Members-List" <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
Date: December 1, 2024 at 9:50:20 AM PST
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] URGENT Legislative Alert - Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act Update
Reply-To: "Young, Justin" <jyoung at nfb.org>


Dear Federation Family:

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I wanted to update everyone on the TCIEA Legislative Alert from Friday, November 22. We have done a great job of flooding the four offices mentioned in the original email with our collective calls and emails, but we cannot let up. If you haven’t had a chance to call or email the offices below, it’s not too late, and if you have already done so, it wouldn’t hurt to send another to really demonstrate how important this issue is to us.

For your convenience, I’ve included the entirety of the previous Legislative Alert below, which includes the suggested script and contact information for the offices.

Thanks for all you do,
Justin

We are coming down to the wire on the 118th Congress and we want to make sure that we’ve done everything that we possibly can in order to advocate for our legislative priorities. In this case, we are trying to ensure that the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) is included in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reauthorization bill that is currently being considered. Right now is a crucial time for this initiative because Congress wants to pass the WIOA reauthorization when they return after Thanksgiving. We need you to flood the email inboxes and telephone lines and voicemail boxes of four key committee staff members in order to make sure TCIEA gets included in the final bill:

Amy Jones
Majority Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Amy.jones at mail.house.gov<mailto:Amy.jones at mail.house.gov>
202-225-4527

Véronique Pluviose-Fenton
Minority Staff Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce
veronique.pluviose at mail.house.gov<mailto:veronique.pluviose at mail.house.gov>
202-225-3725

Warren Gunnels
Majority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Warren_Gunnels at help.senate.gov<mailto:Warren_Gunnels at help.senate.gov>
202-224-0767

Amanda Lincoln
Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Amanda_lincoln at help.senate.gov<mailto:Amanda_lincoln at help.senate.gov>
202-224-5375

When you call or email, you might say something like:

“Dear [NAME]:

I am urging the [HOUSE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE COMMITTEE/SENATE HELP COMMITTEE] to please include the TCIEA in the WIOA reauthorization bill. The TCIEA will eliminate the payment of subminimum wages for people with disabilities and eliminate the need for a government program to monitor special wage certificate holders. Thank you.”

If you send an email, please use the subject line “Please Include the TCIEA in the WIOA Reauthorization” and copy Justin Young at jyoung at nfb.org<mailto:jyoung at nfb.org>.

Congress is working diligently to move the WIOA reauthorization bill as soon as they get back after the Thanksgiving break, so time is of the essence for us to make our voices heard. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thank you for all that you do,

Justin T. Young, Ed.D
Government Affairs Specialist, National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
410-659-9314, extension 2210 | jyoung at nfb.org<mailto:jyoung at nfb.org>


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